Re-Converting the same episodes over and over.

I've been having this issue for a long time. I am replacing my home server and want to get it configured right this time.

My main issue is with the Velocity channel on Comcast. It's the worst offender, maybe because I mainly record car shows and watch most the others. I'll watch close for other channels as the summer rerun schedule is starting soon.

Anyway, every episode is recorded and converted with commercials removed. Even if the episode already exists. I'm not sure what is causing this. is there any log files or other data needed?

This is driving me nuts and once in a while my good shows don't get recorded from redoing all of these old episodes over and over.

As for recording it's controlled by your recording software, depends up on what software you're using for recording it would need to configured.

As for conversion it's simple, it will convert each unique filename. So if each time your windows MCE records it generates a unique filename it will convert it each time. For this scenario there's an option in the Expert settings to check for destination
file before converting (it will check the *expected* output filename and if it already exists it won't convret it).